Elad Margalit
Senior Fullstack Engineer at ad
Israel
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Top SchoolElad Margalit is a Senior Fullstack Engineer and technology leader with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems from Israel. He combines entrepreneurial grit as co-founder and CEO of Ret Israel and strategic leadership as CTO of ad with hands-on engineering roles at companies like Intercontinental Exchange, Nayax, and Bolt. His background spans backend search/indexing expertise—evidenced by contributions to Apache Lucene.NET—with practical cross-platform mobile work improving image caching and performance in the FFImageLoading library. Comfortable shaping architecture and shipping code, he has led senior software architecture efforts while remaining an active contributor to open-source projects. Trained at Technion with an MSc in Information Management and a BSc in Industrial Engineering, he brings both academic rigor and product-focused pragmatism. Colleagues rely on him for bridging deep technical refactors with measurable performance and operational gains.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Msc Information Management, Msc Information Management at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
lucene10
caching10
xamarin10
sql-query10
xamarin-forms10
xamarin-android10
image-loading10
csharp10
disk-cache10
indexing10
web-cache10
memory-cache10
object-cache10
searching10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/lucenenet
Nov 2014 - Nov 2014
Apache Lucene.NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 11 commits, 8 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Elad primarily focused on bug fixing and code refactoring within the Apache Lucene.NET project, as indicated by the "Revert" commits. These commits involved reverting changes to the `PulsingPostingsReader.cs` file and related code adjustments. The contributions suggest a focus on the core search indexing and retrieval functionalities of Lucene.NET. Additionally, the user contributed to the fix in the `Query.cs` file.
querysolrindexanalysisapache
luberda-molinet/FFImageLoading
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Image loading, caching & transforming library for Xamarin and Windows
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 9 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Elad primarily focused on enhancing the image loading library, specifically concerning caching mechanisms. Their contributions centered on adding options to control disk caching behavior, addressing performance issues on older devices. The changes involved modifications to core caching functionalities across various platforms (Xamarin, Forms, Windows, Droid, Touch, WinRT), indicating a deep understanding of the library's architecture and cross-platform considerations. These adjustments improved the library's flexibility and efficiency.
uwpimagewindowswindows-uwpcaching
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